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Thursday, May 19, 2011

the stonemason (1st Peter 2:2-10)

we hand you the design
the committee has come up
with, so that the wall will
be layed out in that dogmatic,
unwavering line (no doubts or
deviations) we expect,
but after a quick glance,
you simply place it in the back
of the truck and start
to work;

where we would toss
aside
those who have
have been skipped haphazardly
over the world's waves,
they become the tiestones
to hold the sections together,
while those wearied from
their struggles shape the
soft gentle curves;

untying the bandanna from around
your head,
you quietly rub the dirt
out of the nicks and crevices
caused as they have been ignored,
you gather up the children
and youth,
pouring them into hollow spaces,
as the aggregate to hold
us all together;

when we expect to
be the pride of your
handiwork,
you quietly pick up the
broken, the chipped, the left-over
slivers we kick out of our way,
placing them as the capstones
on the dry stone wall
you are building in the
kingdom.